SOUTH African super flyweight Zolani Tete is confident of making it a third time lucky when he bids for the right to challenge the IBF crown by beating Mexican Juan Carlos Sanchez in their elimination clash at Auditorio del Estado, Mexicali, Baja California on Saturday.

Tete has failed twice in IBF elimination bouts by narrow margins as he first went down via a razor-thin majority decision to Mexican Alberto Rosas before again seeing his attempts of earning a title shot went up in smoke in Argentina where he lost to local boy Roberto Domingo Sosa by a split verdict.